I walked to the library just about ten minutes ago, and the scenery outside was just… cold and drafty, but… the sky was a pure cerulean blue, and golden and brown and red leaves were falling all over the place… and on the ground, there were swaying patches of intense sunlight and then cool darkness below the trees… and the clouds, although white, had ponderously darker gray shadows underneath, as if they were deliberating on whether to rain…

GAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Scratch all of that out!!!

I just found out TODAY, that Jay Chou’s newest album, Jay Chou on the Run, is being released globally on November 2. Which is five days from today!!!

I found a decent post on a Jay Chou news forum describing his new musical direction and what he’s doing with his image for the album… which is, needless to say, COWBOY ATTIRE! I was just perusing Misaki-san’s blog for posts I missed since my brief absence, and she posted the YouTube video for Jay Chou’s newest music video. I must say, I was a bit shocked, but the video was frickin’ awesome!!! American cowboys never looked so good.

Anyway, got to go. I’m going to go hunting at Goodwill for pieces of my Halloween costume. I’ll tell you more about that later.

Man, my blog isn’t attracting a lot of hits. I think it’s even managed to hit an all-time low…

Not-very-interesting updates from the last time:

• I’ve taken up yoga recently.
• It’s really cold and rainy outside.
• AP Chemistry is whittling away at my desire to live…
• The Web site I’m supposed to manage for CBF is temporarily unavailable since the account expired…
• Public library computers are goddamn annoying.

Meanwhile, my thoughts keep returning to something I wish I could banish from my mind forever. I’d like to write them down, but I don’t even have my own computer at the moment. Goddamn it.

(Suitable prologues to this post: my reviews for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and New Moon. The current subject is Eclipse, third installment in the series.)

Hands down, this is perhaps the worst book I’ve ever read.

Excerpt from back cover:

In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition.
Something Edward didn’t want me to know.
Something that Jacob wouldn’t have kept from me.
Something that had the Cullens and the wolves both in the woods, moving in hazardous proximity to each other…

Something I’d been waiting for anyway.

Something I knew would happen again, as much as I might wish it never would.

It was never going to end, was it?

Indeed. When will it ever end?

And referring back to the post title, here is the reason I thought Eclipse was “inappropriately” titled, in the most acute sense of the word:

to eclipse

1. (transitive) Of atronomical bodies, to cause an eclipse.
   The Moon eclipsed the Sun.
2. (transitive) To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
   The student’s skills soon eclipsed those of his teacher.

Um, excuse me? This miserable excuse for a novel is incapable of overshadowing anything, unless you count that talking-hooded-monkey-assassin short story that my brother wrote more than a year ago.

…

Oh, wait, now that I consider it… nope, even talking assassin monkeys are 500 times more entertaining and better-characterized than this load of shit.

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